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Machiavellian on 18 March 2014
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Dr.Henry_Killinger said:
Machiavellian said:

There is a difference between responding to consumer demands and "getting away with it". The latter suggests that the penalties were either miniscule or non-existant. If XB1 got away with DRM, the Sony would follow suit to compete, and possibly even Nintendo. Just like Sony added a fee for Multiplayer because XB has been doing it for the past decade.

So you believe that Sony is charging for MP like MS does for live because MS is doing it.  This is a very narrow view of why Sony is charging for MP.  Sony is charging for MP because they understood like MS that its the single most direct course to have consumers pay for a service.  

There is a lot of double standards in your statements.  You seem to easily dismiss when Sony does something anti-consumer and then push the blame to their competitor.  Thats like my Son sees his friend hit someone and he goes and does the same thing.  So how many other policies that are anti-consumer that Sony does that you are willing to pass the buck to their competitor for either doing it first or just doing it.

How did I miss this one?

@italics: Exactly, they learned it from MS, because Sony realized that consumers would pay for PSN because of XBL. Because of MS, I have to pay a subscription to play multiplayer on my PS4. Its stands to reason that if XBL wasn't more profitable then PSN, PSN would remain to be free because it makes more fiscal sense for it to be free. Ask me why.

Care to give an example of the bolded?

I am sorry but Sony did not learn anything from MS.  If anything they have projected the cost and benefits long before MS even put such policy into place.  They chose to do it because it makes more money.  Trying to push the blame and spin it any different is really showing your colors.  Hell, Sony even made a statement a long time ago that they will not charge for MP and look at us today.  Corporations make choices just like any individual.  The fact you want to ignore your preferred corporation doing someting for pure profit doesn't look good for your argument.  What other things Sony is going to do that you will push the blame to some other competitor because it helps you to sleep at night.